Flabiol

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Flabiol (right) together with a Tamborí (left)
Flabiol (right) together with a Tamborí (left)

The flabiol or flaviol an woodwind instrument which also is normally played one-handed with a drum [1] [2] [3]. It is one of the 12 instruments of cobla. The Flabiol is played with one hand. The Flabiol player usually plays a small drum with the other hand. It measures about 20 - 25 centimeters in length and above has five or six holes and three underneath. The flabiol plays some bars of a high-pitched theme. [4]

[edit] Overview

They are distinguished, flabiol dry that is lacking of keys and, in spite of unknown, is most traditional; and flabiol of keys or flabiol of cobla that is the one that is used for the sardanas and other groups folk music/Folk. In the sardana flabiol goes accompanied by a tamboril that is maintained with the left elbow and it is struck with the right hand. All the sardanas begin with an introduction interpreted by flabiol. Its traditional geographic zone would extend from the south of Catalonia to the Rosellón, and from the Eastern Strip of Aragón to the Balearic islands, where it is made also serve like solista instrument with melodías own. Aside from forming group with the Cobles of sardanas, cobla can also be found in the average, formed by sac of gemecs or cleat and flabiol, and in cobla of three quarters formed by one tarota or tible, flabiol and sac of gemecs.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Was the Tabor Pipe Always as We Know It? Jeremy Montagu
  2. ^ World Music: The Rough Guide - Page 108 by Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, Richard Trillo
  3. ^ Isaac Albeniz: Portrait of a Romantic - Page 197 by Walter Aaron Clark
  4. ^ Gatherings from Catalonia - Page 141 by John LANGDON-DAVIES

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